Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ :
شرح غرامي صحيح :
Collection of two fragments of two treatises on the terminology of the Ḥadīth, as follows: 1. "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ" (folio 1a-4a), by Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qarāfī (active 1555), a little known author, being a commentary on "Manẓūmat Ibn Faraḥ", a treatise in verse (also cal...
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| Summary: | Collection of two fragments of two treatises on the terminology of the Ḥadīth, as follows: 1. "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ" (folio 1a-4a), by Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qarāfī (active 1555), a little known author, being a commentary on "Manẓūmat Ibn Faraḥ", a treatise in verse (also called "al-Qaṣīdah al-Gharāmīyah", and "Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ", after the opening words of the poem: "Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥun wa-al-rajā fīka muʻḍilu"), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Faraḥ (or Farḥ), al-Lakhmī al-Ishbīlī, who sojourned in Damascus (Syria), a Shāfiʻī Islamic law and Ḥadīth scholar (-1300). 2. "Nuzhat al-naẓar fī tawḍīḥ Nukhbat al-fikar" (folio 4a-8b), by Ibn Ḥajar al-ʻAsqalānī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī (1372-1449), a leading Ḥadīth scholar and a prolific author, born and died in Cairo, being a commentary on his own work "Nukhbat al-fikar fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar". The two fragments were copied in the same hand, name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the eighteenth century Treatise on the terminology of the Ḥadīth, by Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Qarāfī (active 1555), a little known author, being a commentary on "Manẓūmat Ibn Faraḥ", a treatise in verse (also called "al-Qaṣīdah al-Gharāmīyah", and "Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ", after the opening words of the poem: "Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥun wa-al-rajā fīka muʻḍilu"), by Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Faraḥ (or Farḥ), al-Lakhmī al-Ishbīlī, who sojourned in Damascus (Syria), a Shāfiʻī Islamic law and Ḥadīth scholar. According to a note at the end of the author's colophon (folio 10b), the author finished writing his commentary on Wednesday, 12 Rajab, of the year 972 of the Hijrah (23 February 1565). Name of copyist and place and date of copying not mentioned, probably from the 18th century |
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| Item Description: | 1. Incipit of "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ": The beginning is missing, text starts with: "... maʻa al-ṣabr wa-anna maʻa al-ʻusr yusran, wa-warada (?) bi-al-gharīb ʻinda ahl al-Ḥadīth, fa-al-gharīb huwa al-Ḥadīth alladhī yanfaridu bi-hi baʻḍ al-ruwāh, aw al-Ḥadīth yanfaridu fīhi baʻḍuhum bi-amr, wa-lam yashrukhu fīhi ghayruhu, immā fī matnihi wa-immā fī isnādihi, qālahu al-Ḥākim, wa-qāla Ibn Mandah al-gharīb ka-Ḥadīth al-Zuhrī wa-Qatādah wa-ghayrihimā ..." Incipit: "Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. Qāla faqīr raḥmat rabbihi al-Kāfī, Ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aṣbahānī, mustamiddan min Allāh taʻālá, Dhī al-Mathānī: al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī qabila bi-ṣaḥīḥ al-nīyah man hājara ilayh, wa-kafá bi-ḥusnihā man tawakkala ʻalayh, wa-waṣala al-ḍaʻīf al-munqaṭiʻ bi-marāsīl birrih, wa-sakkana nafsahu ʻan al-iḍṭrāb wa-al-ʻilal fī baḥrihi wa-barrih, wa-rafaʻahu wa-asnadahu bi-ḥubbihi, wa-jaʻalahu mudrajan fī silsilat ḥizbihi ..." 1. Secundo folio of "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ": murīd al-isnād al-nāzil wa-huwa ḍidd al-ʻālī Secundo folio: ḍābiṭ ʻan mithlihi ilá muntahāh 2. Incipit of "Nuzhat al-naẓar fī tawḍīḥ Nukhbat al-fikar": "Kitāb 'Nuzhat al-naẓar fī tawḍīḥ Nukhbat al-fikar fī muṣṭalaḥ ahl al-athar', li-Shaykh al-Islām, ḥāfiẓ al-anām, Abī al-Faḍl Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad al-ʻAsqalānī, al-shahīr bi-Ibn Ḥajar, ghafara Allāh la-hu wa-li-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn. Bismillāh al-Raḥmān al-Raḥīm, wa-bi-hi nastaʻīn. al-Ḥamdu lillāh alladhī lam yazal ʻāliman qadīran, ḥayyan qayyūman samīʻan baṣīran, wa-ashhadu an lā ilāha illā Allāh waḥdahu lā sharīka lah, wa-ukabbiruhu takbīran, wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad alladhī arsalahu ilá al-nās kāffatan bashīran wa-nadhīran, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi, wa-sallama taslīman kathīran. Ammā baʻd, fa-inna al-taṣānīf fī iṣṭilāḥ ahl al-Ḥadīth qad kathurat ..." On folio 1a: "Sharḥ 'Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ' lil-ʻĀlim al-ʻallāmah Ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Aṣbahānī, raḥimahu Allāh taʻālá. Āmīn." 2. Secundo folio of "Nuzhat al-naẓar fī tawḍīḥ Nukhbat al-fikar": fīhi kitāban mufradan fa-kāna kamā qāla al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū Bakr ibn Nuqṭah On folio 1b: "... Wa-baʻd, fa-hādhā sharḥ laṭīf al-ḥajm, ḥawá fī ʻilm al-Ḥadīth min al-fawāʼid al-jamm, ʻamiltuhu ʻalá Manẓūmat al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn al-Farḥ al-Ishbīlī ..." At the head of folio 1a: "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ." The text of "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ" ends as follows: "... Jaʻalanā Allāh min sullāk ṭarīq al-rashād, wa-baná sāʼir aʻmālinā ʻalá al-sadād, wa-akhadha bi-aydīnā Yawm al-Maʻād, bi-Muḥammadin Sayyid al-ʻibād wa-al-ʻubbād, wa-jaʻala dhālika khāliṣan la-hu, innahu ʻalá dhālika qadīr, wa-huwa niʻma al-Mawlá wa-niʻma al-naṣīr, wa-lā ḥawla wa-lā qūwata illā billāh al-ʻAlī al-ʻAẓī. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad Khātim al-Nabīyīn wa-al-Mursalīn." 1. Colophon of "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ": "Qāla dhālika al-faqīr, al-muʻtarif bi-al-ʻajz wa-al-taqṣīr, Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī al-Qurashī al-Asadī, al-shahīr bi-al-Qarāfī, ajārahu Allāh taʻālá min khizyi al-dunyā wa-ʻadhāb al-Ākhirah, wa-kafāhu mā ahamma (wa-naḥnu wa-jamīʻ al-Muslimīn)." At the end of the author's colophon: A note indicating that the author finished writing his work on Wednesday, 12 Rajab, of the year 972 of the Hijrah (23 February 1565), as follows: "Dhukira ʻan al-Shaykh, raḍiya Allāh ʻanhu, annahu faragha min taʼlīfihi yawm al-Arbiʻāʼ, thānī ʻashar Rajab, sanat tisʻimiʼah wa-ithnayn wa-sabʻīn min al-Hijrah, ʻalá Muhājirihā afḍal al-ṣalāh wa-al-salām, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam. Āmīn. M." 2. Colophon of "Nuzhat al-naẓar fī tawḍīḥ Nukhbat al-fikar": No colophon. Text ends abruptly, as follows: "... Wa-al-thālith al-ʻazīz, wa-huwa an lā yarwīhi aqall min ithnayn ʻan ithnayn, summiya bi-dhālika immā li-qillat wujūdihi, wa-immā li-kawnihi ʻazza, ay, qawiya bi-majīʼihi min ṭarīq ukhrá, wa-laysa sharṭan lil-ṣaḥīḥ khilāfan li-man zaʻamahu, wa-huwa Abū ʻAlī al-Jubbāʼī min al-Muʻtazilah, wa-ilayhi yūmiʼu kalām al-Ḥākim Abī ʻAbd Allāh fī ʻUlūm al-Ḥadīth, ḥaythu qāla: al-Ṣaḥīḥ an yarwiyahu al-Ṣaḥābī al-zāyil ʻanhu ism al-jahālah bi-an yakūna la-hu rāwiyān ..." Author's colophon: "Jaʻalanā Allāh min sullāk ṭarīq al-rashād, wa-yubqī [wa-abqá] sāʼir aʻmālinā ʻalá al-sadād, wa-akhadha bi-aydīnā Yawm al-Maʻād, bi-Muḥammad Sayyid al-ʻIbād, wa-jaʻala dhālika khāliṣan la-hu, innahu ʻalá kull shayʼ qadīr, wa-Huwa niʻma al-Mawlá wa-niʻma al-naṣīr. Wa-ṣallá Allāh ʻalá Sayyidinā Muḥammad, wa-ʻalá ālihi wa-ṣaḥbihi wa-sallam." 1. Translation of the colophon of "Sharḥ Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ": "That was said by the poor, who acknowledges his inability and negligence, Yaḥyá ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān al-Iṣfahānī al-Qurashī al-Asadī, known as al-Qarāfī, may God Almighty protect him from the shame of this world and the torment of the Hereafter, and spare him what causes worry (and us and all Muslims)." 16.5 x 22.5 cm; written surface: 9 x 16.5 cm; 22 lines per page 21.5 x 15.5 cm; written surface: 9.5 x 12.5 cm; 15 lines per page Binding: In marbled cardboard with black cloth on spine Binding: Unbound (in one quire) In fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; the phrases of "Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ" are underlined; few notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords In large fair naskh script, in black ink, on white paper; headings in red; the phrases of "Gharāmī ṣaḥīḥ" and "Nukhbat al-fikar" in red; few notes and corrections on the margins; catchwords Romanization supplied by cataloger This Yale-originated record is shareable under Creative Commons license CC0 Title from folio 1a Titles from reference sources Translation of the author's colophon: "May God make us walk in the correct path, render all our deeds appropriate, and hold our hand on the Day of Return [i.e. Judgement Day], by the intercession of Muḥammad, the Master of Worshipers. May He render it [the book] purely for His sake. He is able to do what He wills. He is the best Master and the best deliverer. May God pray on our Master Muḥammad, and on his family and companions and grant them peace." |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (10 leaves) ; 23 cm 1 volume (8 leaves) ; 22 cm |
| Related Items: | Forms part of the Hartford Seminary Collection. For a description of the collection, search by call number: Hartford Seminary |
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